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Just because Sandee of Comedy Plus is no longer hosting a Silly Sunday blog hop, do not expect me to quit telling Cajun jokes, especially as it has now become a habit.
Grandma was showing me pictures of my nephew's high school graduation. He's already taken the oath for the US Navy and ships out in June.
Tee Boudreaux done be big 'nuff to go him to de school, an' hims mère done wake him fo' school de firs' day, an' he gets him up and go an' he come home and say he like it okay.
De nex' day, hims mère done wake him an' he say, "You mean I gots to go dere ag'in today?"
An' Clothile say, "Mais, oui, you done gots to go ever' day fo' a long time, 'til you knows enough to be you a père."
An' Tee t'ink about dat an' den he looks at hims père, Boudreaux, an' he say, "Mais! Dat shou'n't take too long!"
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Sunday Selections was started as a way for bloggers to use photos that might otherwise just languish in their files. The rules have been relaxed, and it is now simply a showcase for your photos, new or old, good or bad, although nothing rude, please. It was hosted by River, who still participates, and is now hosted by Elephant's Child.
Skies are about the only thing I seem to have time to photograph regularly, or remember to. So a few other things, and skies.
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This week, Abigal wants to join the Kitties Blue at The Cat On My Head for their Sunday Selfies Blog Hop.
She calls this selfie, "Welcome to my home!"
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Today is:
Arbegnoch Qen -- Ethiopia (Patriots' Victory Day)
Arrival Day -- Guyana
Be Kind to Animals Week -- sponsored by American Humane, through Saturday
Bevrijdingsday -- Netherlands(Liberation Day)
Bonza Bottler Day™
Cartoonists Day -- celebrates the first color cartoon ever published, The Yellow Kid, on this day in 1895.
Children's Day -- Japan (Kodomo-no-hi); South Korea (Orininal)
Cinco de Mayo / Anniversary of the Battle of Puebla -- Mexico, and anyplace that beer brewers want to make a minor battle into a big deal to increase beer sales today
Constitution Day -- Kyrgyzstan
Coronation Day -- Thailand (crowning of King Bhumibol Adulyadej in 1950)
Day of Adoration of Anubis -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
4#Easter/Pascha -- Orthodox Christian
Europe Day -- Council of Europe
Halfway Point of Spring/Autumn
Hanswijk Procession -- Mechelen, Belgium (since the year 1272, the Sunday before Ascension Thursday, the town celebrates Our Lady of Hanswijk, in thanks for the ending of plague and war)
Hidirellez -- Turkey (arrival of spring and a religious holiday of the Alevi peoples, celebrating the meeting on Earth of the Prophets Al-Khidr and Elijah; begins this evening and goes through tomorrow)
International Bereaved Mothers' Day
International Dawn Chorus Day -- encouraging everyone to get up early and join others in listening to the early morning bird chorus/
International Day of the Midwife
Lusophone Culture Day -- Community of Portuguese-speaking countries
Martyr's Day -- Lebanon
Mayday for Mutts -- originally sponsored, but now celebrated by many animal rescues on different dates
Mother's Day -- Angola; Cape Verde; Hungary; Lithuania; Mozambique; Portugal; Romania; Spain
National Chocolate Custard Day
National Ferret Day -- UK (previously sponsored, but the link is no longer available)
National Hoagie Day
National Infertility Survival Day® -- US (encouraging infertility survivors to reach out to those still coming to terms with being diagnosed as infertile)
Perfect Game Day -- Cy Young pitches baseballs first officially recorded perfect game on this day in 1904
Root Canal Awareness Week begins -- the American Association of Endodontists
Save Lives Clean your Hands Day -- WHO (the day gets its own web page)
Senior Citizens Day -- Palau
St. Judith's Day (Patron of Prussia)
World Laughter Day -- sponsored by Dr. Madan Kataria, founder of the worldwide Laughter Yoga movement
Anniversary Today:
The American Medical Association is founded, 1847
Birthdays Today:
Harry Cavill, 1983
Danielle Fishel, 1981
Tina Yothers, 1973
Brian Williams, 1959
Richard E. Grant, 1957
Jean-Pierre Leaud, 1944
Lance Henriksen, 1943
Michael Palin, 1943
Tammy Wynette, 1942
Michael Murphy, 1938
Pat Carroll, 1927
Ann B. Davis, 1926
Alice Faye, 1915
Tyrone Power, 1913
James Beard, 1903
Nelly Bly, 1864
John Batterson Stetson, 1830
Karl Marx, 1818
Soren Kierkegaard, 1813
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Damn Yankees"(Play), 1955
Today in History:
Rebel barons begin a chain of events that leads to King John of England's eventual signing of the Magna Carta, 1215
Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire, 1260
Jews are expelled from Speyer Germany, 1430
Christopher Columbus lands at Jamaica and claims it for Spain, 1494
In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614, 1789
Citizenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland, 1809
Mary Kies becomes the first woman issued a US patent, for a method of weaving, 1809
The American Bible Society organizes in NY, 1816
Emperor Napoleon I dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena, 1821
In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen, 1835
The American Medical Association forms in Philadelphia, 1847
Cinco de Mayo in Mexico: troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla, 1862
The first train robbery in the US occurs in North Bend, Ohio, 1865
Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army, 1877
The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor, 1891
Cy Young pitches the first perfect game in modern baseball history, 1904
Coco Chanel introduces Chanel No. 5, 1921
John T. Scopes is arrested for teaching evolution in violation of Tennessee's Butler Act, 1925
West Germany gains full sovereignty, 1955
Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, 1961
Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27, 1981
The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army, 2006
Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek debt crisis, 2010
Scientists announce the discovery of the oldest & most distant galaxy known to man, EGS-zs8-1, 2015
King Vajiralongkorn is crowned King of Thailand, 2019
Scientists publish findings of what is believed to be Africa's earliest known burial, a three-year-old boy, 78,000 years ago, in a cave in Kenya, 2021